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"As a boring IT professional and science nerd I thought I would offer my services to people on this site  "
Ok.
Why do all aliens have American accents ?. |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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Ok.
Why do all aliens have American accents ?."
Well mostly because Americans make more Alien films then anyone else.
It would also be likely if Aliens where learning our languages they would be learning from out TV and radio broadcasts. The USA broadcasts more Television and radio than any other country, so the ascents they would pick up would be american |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Whose idea was it to put an 'S' in the word 'lisp'? "
Well it is an old Northern European word. Though it used to be said it was because it was the sound the Spanish made when talking |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"List 10 examples of Boyles law in every day situations.... 
10 people in a lift who have had high fibre diets. (All desperate to Fart) ... hehe"
Is the lift in a burning building and are they stuck between the top two floors?....... cuz I do like a bit of drama... |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"List 10 examples of Boyles law in every day situations....
10 people in a lift who have had high fibre diets. (All desperate to Fart) ... hehe
Is the lift in a burning building and are they stuck between the top two floors?....... cuz I do like a bit of drama... "
No.. because in that situation I think that them wording about farting would be the least thing on their mind |
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By (user no longer on site)
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A higgs boson particle walks into a church, but the vicar says "get out of here, you call yourself the god particle when there is only one god round here"
The higgs boson replies "well if im not here how can you have mass?"  |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Shrodingers cat walks into a bar and doesn’t ? 
Schrödinger's Paradox for Swingers - 'You may get pussy, then again, you may not'"
All sorts of things could be happening in a private room in a club, but you do not know until you up the door |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"As a boring IT professional and science nerd I thought I would offer my services to people on this site "
I have 2 questions for you:
1; If all the trees in the world died, how long would it take the Earth to suffocate itself?
2: If all the birds in the world took flight all at the same time & flew across the sky, how much of the Earth would be in darkness?
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After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman? |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"As a boring IT professional and science nerd I thought I would offer my services to people on this site
I have 2 questions for you:
1; If all the trees in the world died, how long would it take the Earth to suffocate itself?
2: If all the birds in the world took flight all at the same time & flew across the sky, how much of the Earth would be in darkness?
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1: A very long time as most of the Oxygen we breath is generated from algae within the oceans
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol)
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By (user no longer on site)
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman? "
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman? "
He is wrong.. the earth will be gone long before it happened .. and the box would break down naturally even before that.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"As a boring IT professional and science nerd I thought I would offer my services to people on this site
I have 2 questions for you:
1; If all the trees in the world died, how long would it take the Earth to suffocate itself?
2: If all the birds in the world took flight all at the same time & flew across the sky, how much of the Earth would be in darkness?
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To q1 it wouldnt as most the earths oxygen is produced by algae approx 70-80% |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"As a boring IT professional and science nerd I thought I would offer my services to people on this site
I have 2 questions for you:
1; If all the trees in the world died, how long would it take the Earth to suffocate itself?
2: If all the birds in the world took flight all at the same time & flew across the sky, how much of the Earth would be in darkness?
To q1 it wouldnt as most the earths oxygen is produced by algae approx 70-80%"
Already beat you to it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"As a boring IT professional and science nerd I thought I would offer my services to people on this site
I have 2 questions for you:
1; If all the trees in the world died, how long would it take the Earth to suffocate itself?
2: If all the birds in the world took flight all at the same time & flew across the sky, how much of the Earth would be in darkness?
To q1 it wouldnt as most the earths oxygen is produced by algae approx 70-80%
Already beat you to it"
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Have you forgotten question 2 ?"
No I answered in my reply ...
but here it is again..
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol) |
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"List 10 examples of Boyles law in every day situations.... "
1. Breathing
2. Drinking using a straw
3. Drawing liquids up using a syringe
4. Scuba diving.
5. Soda stream
6. Fire extinguisher
7. Paintball gun
8. Spray paint
9. Deodorant |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you forgotten question 2 ?
No I answered in my reply ...
but here it is again..
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol)"
So now to question 3:
How many semi colons are used in the Wondows operating system & if all the semi colons were joint together, what would the length be? |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Have you forgotten question 2 ?
No I answered in my reply ...
but here it is again..
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol)
So now to question 3:
How many semi colons are used in the Wondows operating system & if all the semi colons were joint together, what would the length be?"
I think you are talking about the use of semi colons as a line terminator character in the C (c++,C#) language. So you are trying to get the answer how many lines of code are used in the Operating system.
Well it depends on so many factors, what version of the OS you are using, what libraries and other extras you have or do not have.
The distance depends on the size of the individual semi colon to start. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you forgotten question 2 ?
No I answered in my reply ...
but here it is again..
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol)
So now to question 3:
How many semi colons are used in the Wondows operating system & if all the semi colons were joint together, what would the length be?
I think you are talking about the use of semi colons as a line terminator character in the C (c++,C#) language. So you are trying to get the answer how many lines of code are used in the Operating system.
Well it depends on so many factors, what version of the OS you are using, what libraries and other extras you have or do not have.
The distance depends on the size of the individual semi colon to start."
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Okay then, we'll say Windows 3 & Windows Proffessional  |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Have you forgotten question 2 ?
No I answered in my reply ...
but here it is again..
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol)
So now to question 3:
How many semi colons are used in the Wondows operating system & if all the semi colons were joint together, what would the length be?
I think you are talking about the use of semi colons as a line terminator character in the C (c++,C#) language. So you are trying to get the answer how many lines of code are used in the Operating system.
Well it depends on so many factors, what version of the OS you are using, what libraries and other extras you have or do not have.
The distance depends on the size of the individual semi colon to start.
P
Okay then, we'll say Windows 3 & Windows Proffessional "
Windows 95 is about 5 million lines of code.. not sure about windows 3.0 ... but I would say it would be under 2 Million lines |
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By *andcCouple
over a year ago
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman?
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years "
mmm...it's a theory..no-one knows if he's right..unless we wait a billion years..so in fact relative to today it has no use! |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman?
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years
mmm...it's a theory..no-one knows if he's right..unless we wait a billion years..so in fact relative to today it has no use!"
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By (user no longer on site)
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman?
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years
mmm...it's a theory..no-one knows if he's right..unless we wait a billion years..so in fact relative to today it has no use!
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Absolute zero -273°c, the temperature at which all forms of matter cease to have kinetic energy |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman?
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years
mmm...it's a theory..no-one knows if he's right..unless we wait a billion years..so in fact relative to today it has no use!
Absolute zero -273°c, the temperature at which all forms of matter cease to have kinetic energy"
That temp is rarely achieved in the universe
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman?
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years
mmm...it's a theory..no-one knows if he's right..unless we wait a billion years..so in fact relative to today it has no use!
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That isn't to say that next year we might have made discoveries that gives this theory practical uses. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you forgotten question 2 ?
No I answered in my reply ...
but here it is again..
2: Now that is a very hard one to answer, most of the light we see is reflected by the earths atmosphere, plus about 50% of the earth is in darkness at anyone time anyways.. (Yes I know it is less the 50% because of the reflection.. lol)
So now to question 3:
How many semi colons are used in the Wondows operating system & if all the semi colons were joint together, what would the length be?
I think you are talking about the use of semi colons as a line terminator character in the C (c++,C#) language. So you are trying to get the answer how many lines of code are used in the Operating system.
Well it depends on so many factors, what version of the OS you are using, what libraries and other extras you have or do not have.
The distance depends on the size of the individual semi colon to start.
P
Okay then, we'll say Windows 3 & Windows Proffessional
Windows 95 is about 5 million lines of code.. not sure about windows 3.0 ... but I would say it would be under 2 Million lines"
Knowing the LOC in a system only allows an estimate to be made about the number of semicolons in the source.
Of course, that's assuming the questioner was referring to source code and not semicolons in resource strings etc. that are visible to the user.
And clearly, the final part of the question makes it fairly obvious that the entire thing is not remotely serious. Sigh. |
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"I have another question.
If every volcano on earth erupted at the same time, what would be the temperature of the Earth at time of eruption ?"
I got distracted when you mentioned eruption
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"I have another question.
If every volcano on earth erupted at the same time, what would be the temperature of the Earth at time of eruption ?"
The earth would rapidly cool as it would spin round like a catherine wheel.... |
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"I have another question.
If every volcano on earth erupted at the same time, what would be the temperature of the Earth at time of eruption ?
The earth would rapidly cool as it would spin round like a catherine wheel...."
Only if they erupted at a tangent and were all aligned the same direction. |
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"I have another question.
If every volcano on earth erupted at the same time, what would be the temperature of the Earth at time of eruption ?
The earth would rapidly cool as it would spin round like a catherine wheel....
Only if they erupted at a tangent and were all aligned the same direction."
does this include calderas? |
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"After watching that Professor Cox dude do a lecture, I'm fascinated by partical physics.
However, there is one thing he said that I'm absolutely sure that is bollox, yet I will never be able to prove I'm right, and he will never be able to prove he's right.
Basically, he put a fekkin huge diamond in a box, and said that, given enough time, cos things "vibrate", and during this vibration their particles match up with voids in other things around them, the diamond would "vibrate" itself through the box, and end up outside, leaving both the box, and the diamond, intact. The problem about proof is he reckons it would take billions of years.
my question is... should he have stuck with the band he was in, or become a dustman?
Yes he is right.
Energy is everything & everything is an energy & yes everything vibrates & vibration is felt by those who sense it.
See you in a billion years
mmm...it's a theory..no-one knows if he's right..unless we wait a billion years..so in fact relative to today it has no use!"
So, again in theory, my hypothesis is as valid as his?
Yay..... up yours Coxy boy!!  |
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I don't get all this science stuff..so here's a really blonde one for you...where has all the white dog poo gone? when I was a kid it was always around ...sorry to lower the tone, but am I really alone with this quandary? or just weird x  |
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"I don't get all this science stuff..so here's a really blonde one for you...where has all the white dog poo gone? when I was a kid it was always around ...sorry to lower the tone, but am I really alone with this quandary? or just weird x "
White dogs poo, or, to give it its correct name... "Barkers eggs", was caused by there being a lot of calcium in dogs diets, either from bones, or from the crap that was put in as filler in a lot of the cheaper dog foods.
With the tighter regulation of foodstuffs, it seems even dog food had to be of a better quality, hence less fillers, and a lot less white poo! |
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when I look at a colour, say green - do I see the same 'colour' as everyone else or does my receptors interpret colour differently.
you may see 'my' red when you look at green but because you have been taught that it is green it is 'your' green |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"when I look at a colour, say green - do I see the same 'colour' as everyone else or does my receptors interpret colour differently.
you may see 'my' red when you look at green but because you have been taught that it is green it is 'your' green"
This is a very good question.
Nearly everyone sees, hears, smells and taste the same things. The wave length of red light is always the same, the sound wave of a tuning fork is always the same. The way our senses work are the same as well.
But from there things get weird, when the signals pass to our brains it is processed by memories and other factors. Everyone's brain is different, built from different experiences. So when you see red it fires off different things in your brain then would in my brain.
We are slowly working at ways to read thoughts, but it involves a system learning what happens in your brain when you see red and then looks for that pattern again. The same pattern could mean something completely different in my brain though. |
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"Given Darwin's theory of evolution, why are there so many people with the intelligence of neanderthals?"
easy one that as most of them dont work so they stay at home and bred so keeping their numbers up  |
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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago
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"when I look at a colour, say green - do I see the same 'colour' as everyone else or does my receptors interpret colour differently.
you may see 'my' red when you look at green but because you have been taught that it is green it is 'your' green
This is a very good question.
Nearly everyone sees, hears, smells and taste the same things. The wave length of red light is always the same, the sound wave of a tuning fork is always the same. The way our senses work are the same as well.
But from there things get weird, when the signals pass to our brains it is processed by memories and other factors. Everyone's brain is different, built from different experiences. So when you see red it fires off different things in your brain then would in my brain.
We are slowly working at ways to read thoughts, but it involves a system learning what happens in your brain when you see red and then looks for that pattern again. The same pattern could mean something completely different in my brain though."
Some people see sounds and hear colours, unusual but very well documented. |
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By *tomCom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Given Darwin's theory of evolution, why are there so many people with the intelligence of neanderthals?
easy one that as most of them dont work so they stay at home and bred so keeping their numbers up "
You need to watch a film called 'Idiocracy'. I think it should be shown in all schools as a warning .. |
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